Integrated Certification

With an ever increasing number of certificates issued worldwide, ISO9001:2000 remains the globally recognised standard for Quality Management and as a result of raised public awareness and increasing legislation ISO 14001:2004 has become the fastest growing certification standard in the world. This, together with the emergence of OHSAS 18001:2007, has put increased pressure on business management systems.

 

For most of these companies their certification body manages quality separately to environment, with no co-ordination and a resulting duplication of effort, time and cost. Add to this the potential need for Health & Safety certification under OHSAS 18001 and the possible need for site audits under Emissions Trading; then the benefits of integration become clear.

 

The Benefits

The business benefits brought by integrating your systems results in a significant improvement in effectiveness and efficiency by;

• A single management system running your business and focusing on your objectives.
• Prioritising risks to the business as a whole rather than specific quality, environmental or health & safety issues.
• System based on continual improvement and risk focused, assisting in the mitigation of identified risk and focus on meeting strategic objectives.
• Improved Efficiency and effectiveness
• Eliminating duplication of core activities
• Simplification and reduction of documentation
• Decreased disruption to your business, eliminating duplication of audit activity and fewer audits
• Improved communication flow and recognition and understanding of responsibilities and interrelationships.

Our Role

CICS Regular surveillance visits will assist in continual improvement, maintenance of monitoring systems and measurement of performance. Effectiveness and reliability will be tested ensuring improvement in both internal operations and customer requirements are identified.

 

Unlike generalist certification bodies CICS can offer competent integrated auditors, who can cover all your certification needs either on one visit or a schedule of co-ordinated visits, over the 3 year certification cycle.